[REBOL] Deleting / Unsetting Hierachical Objects / Faces
From: james::mustard::co::nz at: 20-Dec-2001 0:54
Hi All,
At present I am working on a bit of code that encapsulates over 300 faces
into a single context. Unfortunately since these faces are all ordered in
an object-like manner and some have timers involved, doing a mass delete of
the object is not always giving expected results and memory is not being
released until the script ends - this gets to be an issue once the 65MB
object is re-loaded a few times...
(Am expecting on average about 1000 - 2000 reloads of the object as it is
part of a game interface, also the test scripts and associated files are
over 5MB compressed so they wont be sent anywhere in a hurry ;-) )
First I defined an object called desktop that is simply a screen-wide face
(yes - i know this overrides the internal desktop command in view).
To desktop/pane I append the my-object/my-top-face (which by default
includes all its subfaces and animations).
Then to test memory release I added a button to desktop (see below) to
release my-top-face from the desktop and kill my-object like so:
=> button "Remove Object" [remove find desktop/pane my-object/my-top-face
my-object: copy []]
;I also tried unset 'my-object in the remove button - but this did not
affect sub-faces and timers
Next I added a button to call in the %my-context-object.r file which creates
the my-object and appends its my-object/my-top-face to the desktop.
=> button "Add Object" [do %my-context-object.r show desktop]
(code from %my-context-object.r is merely an append desktop/pane
my-top-face)
What I need to know is:
1) How do I properly delete huge multi-level objects (please don't say
property by property...)
2) How do I make sure that all memory is reclaimed (ie trigger garbage
collection manually) - provided this is not already covered by step 1.
Thanks :)
James.
